![]() I have narrated probably about 500 audiobooks over the last 13 years or so. For folks who may not be familiar with your work, would you mind giving us like a little intro and just an about yourself? So there’s been a lot of talk about your narration already on the podcast. And on our previous podcast, we were talking about Book Lovers. I before we started recording, I was telling Julia the story of how I had to pause a book that you wrote to start your book that you were the narrator of. And Karen and I were talking about how we just couldn’t have started with a better narrator. You’re also the podcast’s first narrator guest which given that we’re an audiobook company is super exciting for us. Well, I’m a huge fan of Libro FM, so it’s very reciprocal.Īwesome. So we promise to use our power responsibly and ask all of the questions they wanted us to cover. ![]() And transparently just to let you know, you have a lot of fans at Libro FM, we have some colleagues who are very envious that we’re the ones getting to talk to you today. We are so excited to have you today.Ĭraig and I are huge fans of your work as a narrator as an author as an actor as well. We got tons of behind the scenes info about the audiobook recording process, AI what that means for the audiobook industry and tons of other stuff.Īs always, thank you for listening to the podcast, and we hope you enjoy the interview. We talked about her forthcoming book, obviously. The interview was super interesting and fun for us. She has narrated over 500 books and even wrote two of her own, including Thank You For Listening that comes out on August 2. On this episode, we had the pleasure to speak with one of our favorite narrators ever. “The Secret History meets Serial… modern campus novel, in which a woman goes back to her old boarding school to teach a class on podcasting and winds up reliving-and relitigating-her own youth and the murder of a classmate.Hi and welcome back to the Libro FM podcast, a monthly series featuring interviews with authors, narrators, booksellers and more. I Have Some Questions For You is a most anticipated book from publications including Bustle, Elle, The Millions, Newsweek, NPR, Salon, Time Magazine, and USA Today. She is also a Grammy-nominated audiobook director, a former writing tutor, a half-decent amateur baker, and a certified tea sommelier. It lost the Goodreads Choice Award in Romance, however, to a novel she narrated, Book Lovers by Emily Henry, which she absolutely agrees should have won. Her new novel, Thank You For Listening, was a Best of 2022 pick at Amazon, Audible, and NPR. Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year, garnered a Society of Voice Arts award. In 2020, AudioFile Magazine gave her its lifetime achievement designation, a Golden Voice, a year after she won the Best Female Narrator Audie for Tara Westover's Educated. ![]() Julia Whelan is a writer, lifelong actor, and award-winning audiobook narrator of over 500 titles across all genres. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime-four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and it was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times. This special event is presented by Books & Books, Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Print: A Bookstore, and Prairie Lights. Join NYT Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai for a live stream conversation with award-winning audiobook narrator Julia Whelan about her new novel, I Have Some Questions For You.
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